"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Taken Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.”
“Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.”
“Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.”
“If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.”
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
“Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.”
“I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.”
“Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?”

Source : "Azealia Banks's Twitter beef with Iggy Azalea over US race issues misses point" by Monica Tan, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2014.

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